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Four-Links – Virgo, pedestrian strainer, retro ads, sidecar sailing

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* Can’t decide between a dune buggy and a sports car? Back in 1970, Beau Hickory had the ideal solution, and he called it the Virgo. Geoff Hacker at Forgotten Fiberglass has the story on the dual-purpose machine. * Use for a Ford flathead V-8, No. 45,607: Connect it to a propeller and scoot around […]

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Tagged Beau Hickory, Clifford Robins, Duesenberg, dune buggies, factories, flathead Ford V-8, Forgotten Fiberglass, Fred Roe, Hemmings Classic Car, motorcycles and scooters, Peter Helck, sidecar sailing, three-wheelers, vintage ads, Virgo, windwagon  
 

Duesenberg, Pike’s Peak, Colorado

Written by webmin

With the 89th Pike’s Peak International Hill Climb this weekend (as well as Mount Washington’s revived Climb to the Clouds), we thought we’d go looking for some vintage photography from Pike’s Peak, and we thought the most natural place to find such photography would be in the Denver Public Library’s digital collections. However, we only […]

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Tagged Duesenberg, Lost and Found, Pike's Peak International Hill Climb, Pikes Peak, racing  
 

Whittell Duesenberg to cross the auction block at Gooding

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Image by Pawel Litwinski, courtesy Gooding & Company The automobiles of Auburn, Indiana, drew a coterie of flamboyant buyers, but few of them went so far over the top as George Whittell Jr., who inherited two gigantic California fortunes that underpinned his life as a rake and adventurer. George loved cars. He especially loved the […]

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Tagged auctions, coachbuilt cars, Duesenberg, Duesenberg Model J, Full Classics, George Whittell Jr., Gooding and Company, Hemmings Classic Car, Hemmings Daily, Murphy  
 

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